HELLO, EVERYBODY. IT'S BEEN A NICE PREQUEL TO SUMMER TODAY, WITH 26 DEGREES IN THE INLAND NORTH AND SUNSHINE TOP TO BOTTOM. AS EXPECTED, THE LANGUID COMPRESSED AIR UNDER THE CYCLONE HAS HEATED UP ALONG THE HILLS AND PERCOLATED UP INTO THUNDERCLOUDS FOR MARLBOROUGH TO GISBOURNE. NOW THE LIGHTNING STRIKES HAVE REACHED THE BAY OF PLENTY. UPDATES THROUGH THE NEWS HOUR. BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S 6 O'CLOCK. DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF ONE NEWS, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. HE'S BEEN INVESTIGATED BEFORE. A POLICEMAN ADMITS INDECENT ASSAULT AND OFFERING TO LET A WOMAN OFF IN EXCHANGE FOR A SEX ACT. TERROR FROM THE SKIES. A SWARM OF DEADLY TORNADOES FLATTENS TOWNS AS A HUGE STORM SYSTEM ROARS ACROSS AMERICA. CLAIMS YOU'LL BE PAYING MORE TO FLY AIR NZ AS THE GOVERNMENT SELLS A 20% STAKE IN OUR NATIONAL CARRIER. AND THE CHARRED WRECKAGE OF BURNT-OUT BUSES. IT'LL COST MILLIONS, AND POLICE ARE HUNTING A FIREBUG. KIA ORA. GOOD EVENING. A POLICEMAN WHO TODAY ADMITTED INDECENTLY ASSAULTING A WOMAN AND OFFERING TO LET ANOTHER ONE OFF IN EXCHANGE FOR A SEXUAL FAVOUR HAS BEEN INVESTIGATED BEFORE. SENIOR CONSTABLE GORDON STANLEY MEYER WAS ACCUSED OF BEHAVING INDECENTLY SIX YEARS AGO, BUT POLICE FOUND INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO PROSECUTE. POLICE ARE NOW CALLING FOR ANY OTHER POSSIBLE VICTIMS TO COME FORWARD. LISA DAVIES WAS IN COURT. A POLICE OFFICER IN THE DOCK FACING BRIBERY, CORRUPTION AND SEX CHARGES. < HOW DO YOU PLEAD? GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY? GUILTY. THE SENIOR CONSTABLE (45) WAS ABOUT TO FACE A TWO-WEEK TRIAL UNTIL HIS UNEXPECTED ADMISSIONS. FIRSTLY, TO ACCEPTING A BRIBE OF SEXUAL GRATIFICATION TO DROP AN EXCESS-BREATH ALCOHOL CHARGE AGAINST A WOMAN (23). IT WAS MEYER WHO SUGGESTED THEY COULD SORT IT OUT ON A 'PERSONAL LEVEL'. THE VICTIM THEN SUGGESTED TO THE DEFENDANT THAT THEY GO ACROSS THE ROAD AND THAT SHE WOULD PERFORM ORAL SEX ON HIM. WHEN THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN, MEYER PHONED THE YOUNG WOMAN 19 TIMES AND LATER PULLED OVER A CAR SHE WAS IN. THAT INCIDENT PROMPTED HER TO MAKE THE COMPLAINT AS SHE FELT SHE WAS BEING STALKED. IN THE SECOND INCIDENT, THE OFFICER INDECENTLY ASSAULTED AN 18-YEAR-OLD IN HIS POLICE CAR. HE GRABBED HER HAND AND PLACED IT ON THE CROTCH AREA OF HIS TROUSERS. SHE PULLED HER HAND AWAY. HE THEN REACHED OVER AND PLACED HIS HAND UNDER HER TOP, IN HER BRA, AND FELT HER BREAST. THE VICTIM STRUGGLED AND KEPT SAYING NO. SHE SAID SHE FELT POWERLESS AS THE DEFENDANT WAS A POLICE OFFICER, AND SHE WAS SCARED OF HIM. THE COURT HEARD THAT, AFTER THAT INCIDENT, HE RANG THE VICTIM NUMEROUS TIMES, MAKING COMMENTS OF A SEXUAL NATURE THAT MADE HER FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. THE OFFICER OF 19 YEARS WAS STOOD DOWN DURING THE INVESTIGATION, AND HE HAS JUST RESIGNED FROM THE POLICE FORCE. HIS LAWYER DECLINED TO COMMENT AS HE RUSHED HIS CLIENT FROM THE COURTHOUSE. UH, WAIT TILL SENTENCING. POLICE HAVE PRAISED THE WOMEN FOR HAVING THE COURAGE TO COME FORWARD. THE COMPLEX INVESTIGATION TOOK 9000 HOURS. THIS DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOUR, YOU KNOW, WE... THE PUBLIC HAVE TO BE VERY SURE THAT WE WON'T TOLERATE THIS BEHAVIOUR, AND WE INVESTIGATE OUR OWN VERY THOROUGHLY. MEYER WAS INVESTIGATED FOR SIMILAR INDECENT BEHAVIOUR IN 2007, WITHOUT SUCCESS. 18 CHARGES WERE ORIGINALLY LAID IN THIS RECENT PROSECUTION. POLICE HAVE NOW SET UP AN 0800 NUMBER FOR ANY OTHER VICTIMS. I'M APPEALING FOR ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, ANYONE ELSE WHO MAY HAVE HAD ANY ADVERSE INTERACTION WITH THIS OFFICER TO COME FORWARD. MEYER, WHO HAS BEEN RELEASED ON BAIL, WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH. LISA DAVIES, ONE NEWS. POWERFUL TORNADOES SPAWNED BY A HUGE STORM SYSTEM HAVE KILLED AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE AND FLATTENED WHOLE NEIGHBOURHOODS IN AMERICA'S MIDWEST. AN ESTIMATED 53 MILLION PEOPLE IN 10 STATES HAVE BEEN UNDER THREAT FROM THE STORM. THE WORST HIT SO FAR IS THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. US CORRESPONDENT JACK TAME IS ACROSS DEVELOPMENTS. OK, THIS IS AS CLOSE AS I EVER WANT TO GET. A MASSIVE, CHURNING GREY MONSTER. WE'RE GETTING HIT WITH SOME HAIL, SOME DEBRIS. SOUTH OF CHICAGO, IT CUT ACROSS THE ILLINOIS LANDSCAPE, LEAVING NEIGHBOURHOODS ALL BUT FLATTENED. WE RAN TO THE BASEMENT, AND IT WAS GONE WITHIN THREE OR FOUR MINUTES. AND JUST` YOU CAN SEE WHAT IT'S DONE HERE. JUST EVERYTHING. DOZENS OF TORNADOES WERE REPORTED ACROSS THE MIDWEST. WE SAW IT COMING THROUGH THIS WAY. LIKE, THE ANGLE, TOWARDS OUR HOUSE. RESIDENTS IN THE DANGER ZONE WERE ONE MINUTE PRAYING FOR THEIR LIVES,... BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. AMEN. > ...THE NEXT, BEWILDERED AT THE CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE. TORNADO TOOK THE HOUSE DOWN. HUNDREDS OF HOMES WERE DESTROYED IN THE ILLINOIS TOWNS OF WASHINGTON AND PEORIA. DOZENS OF PEOPLE WERE INJURED AND SEVERAL KILLED, WHILE IN PARTS OF INDIANA, TORNADOES TOUCHED DOWN AS WELL. AT SOLDIER FIELD IN CHICAGO, 60,000 SPECTATORS AT AN NFL FOOTBALL MATCH WERE FORCED TO SEEK SHELTER UNDERNEATH THE STANDS. THE GAME WILL BE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED. THE OMINOUS SKIES DELAYED THE GAME FOR SOME TWO HOURS. MILLIONS MORE AMERICANS ARE BEING WARNED TO PREPARE FOR NATURE'S WORST. JACK TAME, ONE NEWS, NEW YORK. THE GOVERNMENT'S RULING OUT GETTING RID OF THE REST OF ITS MAJORITY STAKE IN AIR NZ. THE PROCESS OF SELLING 20% OF ITS SHARE IN OUR NATIONAL AIRLINE KICKED OFF TODAY, BUT FEARS HAVE BEEN RAISED THAT PRIVATISING MORE OF THE AIRLINE WILL BE BAD FOR WORKERS. POLITICAL REPORTER KATIE BRADFORD HAS MORE. THE GOVERNMENT'S SELL-DOWN OF AIR NZ HAS PROMPTED WARNINGS OF JOB CUTS FOR THE AIRLINE AND A LOSS OF REGIONAL ROUTES. THE EPMU REPRESENTS 3000 WORKERS AND SAYS REDUCING THE GOVERNMENT'S SHARE FROM 73% TO 53% WILL HAVE A DRASTIC IMPACT ON THEM. WITH WIDER SHAREHOLDING IN PRIVATE HANDS, AS THOSE SHARES, UH, THE VALUE OF THOSE SHARES DIMINISHES, UH, MORE PRESSURE WILL GO ON TO CUT WAGES AND CONDITIONS. THE PRIME MINISTER, THOUGH, INSISTS REDUCING THE GOVERNMENT'S STAKE WILL HAVE NO IMPACT ON THE DAY TO DAY RUNNING OF THE AIRLINE. WE CAN'T VERY LIKELY SEE WHAT WILL PARTICULARLY CHANGE WITH THE GOVERNMENT BEING, UM, A 73% SHAREHOLDER AND THEN MOVING TO A 51% SHAREHOLDER. LABOUR'S LEADER IS PREDICTING NATIONAL WOULD SELL OFF MORE OF THE AIRLINE AFTER THE 2014 ELECTION, SHOULD IT WIN POWER. I CHALLENGE THE PRIME MINISTER AND THE DEPUTY TO CONFIRM THAT THEY WILL NEVER SELL ANOTHER AIR NZ SHARE. IF THEY WON'T SAY THAT, THEN WE ALL KNOW WHAT THEIR REAL INTENTION IS, WHICH IS TO KEEP THESE SALES GOING UNTIL THEY'VE DILUTED BELOW A MAJORITY STAKE. ABSOLUTELY? SO YOU CAN RULE THAT OUT NOW? > THAT'S RIGHT. BUT WHILE HE'S SAYING SELLING MORE OF AIR NZ IS OFF THE AGENDA, BILL ENGLISH IS NOT RULING OUT MAKING FURTHER ASSET SALES A POLICY PLATFORM IN THE LEAD-UP TO 2014 ELECTION. WE WOULD. WE... WE ANNOUNCED THE PROGRAMME, AND WE'LL SEE THAT PROGRAMME THROUGH TO COMPLETION. TRADING IN AIR NZ SHARES HAVE BEEN HALTED FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW. THE GOVERNMENT EXPECTS TO GAIN ABOUT $365M FROM THIS SALE. THE EXACT RESULT WILL BE REVEALED TOMORROW ALONG WITH DETAILS ABOUT JUST WHO HAS BOUGHT THE SHARES. BUT THE DEBATE OVER ASSET SALES WILL CONTINUE, WITH OVER THREE MILLION VOTING PAPERS TO HIT LETTERBOXES FROM FRIDAY FOR THE REFERENDUM ON THE ISSUE. KATIE BRADFORD, ONE NEWS. EWEN MACDONALD, THE MAN ACQUITTED OF KILLING HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, FEILDING FARMER SCOTT GUY, WILL MAKE HIS SECOND BID FOR FREEDOM NEXT WEEK. MACDONALD WAS JAILED AFTER ADMITTING THE SLAUGHTER OF 19 CALVES, BURNING DOWN A DUCK-SHOOTER'S HUT AND VANDALISING A HOUSE BELONGING TO SCOTT GUY AND HIS WIFE, KYLEE. HE WAS SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS AND HAS ALREADY SPENT TWO AND A HALF YEARS BEHIND BARS. MACDONALD WILL BE IN FRONT OF THE PAROLE BOARD ON MONDAY AT CHRISTCHURCH MEN'S PRISON. AT HIS LAST HEARING, THE BOARD FOUND MACDONALD NEEDED PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELLING AND STILL POSED A RISK TO THE COMMUNITY. THE FAMILY OF A MAN WHO DIED FROM A STAB WOUND IS ANGRY ONE OF THE MEN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIM HAS BEEN GRANTED BAIL. THE PARENTS OF MICHAEL VALENTINE, WHO DIED IN FEBRUARY, SAY THEY HAD NO CHANCE TO OPPOSE THE DECISION AND ONLY LEARNED ABOUT IT AFTER BAIL WAS GRANTED. SIMON BRADWELL HAS THIS EXCLUSIVE STORY. FATHER-OF-ONE MICHAEL VALENTINE DIED IN FEBRUARY AT THIS RURAL LEVIN PROPERTY. THE SADNESS JUST OVERWHELMS YOU. THE LOSS IS... SOMETIMES I WONDER HOW I'M GOING TO GET THROUGH THIS, BUT I'VE GOT GRANDCHILDREN, SO I'VE GOT TO GET THROUGH IT. (SNIFFLES) THE 28-YEAR-OLD SUFFERING A SINGLE STAB WOUND IN THE CHEST. IT'S MY SON'S BIRTHDAY ` 28 ON THE 30TH OF NOVEMBER ` AND THAT IS GOING TO BE TOUGH. CHRISTMAS, I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW CHRISTMAS. THREE MEN CHARGED WITH MURDER. THEY'VE DENIED THE CHARGES AND WILL GO TO TRIAL IN APRIL. ONE OF THE MURDER ACCUSED, MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN, WAS ORIGINALLY REMANDED IN CUSTODY BUT IN JULY APPLIED FOR BAIL. THE APPLICATION WAS NOT OPPOSED BY THE CROWN, AND A HIGH COURT JUDGE BAILED MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN TO A CHRISTCHURCH ADDRESS. I FIND THAT ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING THAT THEY DIDN'T OPPOSE. WE WEREN'T ADVISED THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE A BAIL HEARING. WE WERE NOT PRESENT AT THE BAIL HEARING, SO OUR VIEWS OBVIOUSLY WEREN'T PUT FORWARD AT THE BAIL HEARING. IT'S A RARE CASE, BUT MURDER DEFENDANTS ARE ENTITLED TO APPLY FOR BAIL. AS LONG AS THEY MEET THE CRITERIA OF BEING NO-FLIGHT RISK, THERE'S NO RISK OF RE-OFFENDING, NO CHANCE OF WITNESSES BEING TAMPERED OR INTERFERED WITH, AND EVIDENCE ITSELF BEING INTERFERED WITH, WHY THEY SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN BAIL. AND, IN THIS CASE, STRICT BAIL CONDITIONS WERE IMPOSED. THE JUDGE RULED THAT MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN MUST LIVE UNDER A 24-HOUR CURFEW, WEAR AN ELECTRONICALLY-MONITORED ANKLE BRACELET ALL THE TIME AND HAVE NO CONTACT WHATSOEVER WITH MICHAEL VALENTINE'S FAMILY. POLICE TOLD ONE NEWS THEY HAD VIGOROUSLY OPPOSED BAIL WHEN MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN WAS ARRESTED BUT DIDN'T EXPLAIN WHY THEY DIDN'T OPPOSE THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION. MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN'S LAWYER DECLINED TO COMMENT, BUT HIS CLIENT WILL DEFEND THE MURDER CHARGE. MICHAEL VALENTINE'S FAMILY HOPE FOR ANSWERS ON THE BAIL DECISION ONCE THE TRIAL IS OVER. SIMON BRADWELL, ONE NEWS. TWO QUEENSTOWN BROTHERS WHO CREATED A MASSIVE BIOSECURITY THREAT BY KEEPING SCORPIONS AS PETS HAVE ESCAPED A JAIL TERM. MATTHEW AND JAMES GRANT ADMITTED POSSESSING SIX BLACK ROCK SCORPIONS THAT WERE SMUGGLED IN FROM AUSTRALIA. IT'S BELIEVED THEY COULD HAVE SURVIVED IN THE WILD. AND THERE WAS THIS HARM, A REAL HARM, TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE THE ENVIRONMENT OF NZ ` A QUESTIONABLE HARM TO PEOPLE LIVING WITHIN NZ. THE BROTHERS WERE SENTENCED TO 150 HOURS' COMMUNITY WORK AND A TWO-MONTH CURFEW. THEIR FRIEND WHO SMUGGLED THE SCORPIONS INTO NZ WILL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH. WELLINGTON POLICE ARE TONIGHT APPEALING FOR HELP TO FIND OUT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A FIRE THAT DESTROYED FIVE BUSES. MORE THAN $2M WORTH OF DAMAGE d WAS CAUSED BY THE BLAZE 8 EARLY THIS MORNING. RYAN BOSWELL HAS MORE. CHARRED TO THE BARE METAL. RUNNING UP AND DOWN THE STREET, WAKING NEIGHBOURS. NEIGHBOURS CLEARLY PETRIFIED WHEN FIRE TOOK HOLD OF THESE FIVE BUSES EARLY THIS MORNING. THREE OF THOSE ARE COMPLETELY WRITTEN OFF, AND THE OTHER TWO WILL NEED TO BE ASSESSED AS TO WHETHER THEY CAN BE REPAIRED OR NOT. BUS SERVICES WON'T BE DISRUPTED THE COST OF THE DAMAGE IS AROUND $2.5M. BUT COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WORSE IF THE FIRE HAD TAKEN HOLD OF NEARBY HOMES. THERE WAS A RISK OF, UM, FURTHER DAMAGE AND INJURY HERE. REALLY GLAD IT'S BEEN ISOLATED TO THESE VEHICLES. THIS IS THE FIRST SERIOUS INCIDENT OF ITS KIND AT THIS RESIDENTIAL DEPOT IN THE SUBURB OF KARORI, WHICH HOUSES AROUND 200 BUSES. IT IS FULLY FENCED AND LOCKED AT NIGHT, BUT THERE ARE NO SECURITY CAMERAS, AND NEIGHBOURS SAY THAT HAS TO CHANGE. CONCERN A LOT OF PEOPLE AROUND HERE OBVIOUSLY WE'LL BE REVIEWING SECURITY, AND WE HAVE SECURITY ON SITE HERE NOW. POLICE SAY THE FIRE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN DELIBERATELY LIT, AND THEY NEED ANYONE WITH INFORMATION TO COME FORWARD. RYAN BOSWELL, ONE NEWS. THE WOMAN WHO ALLEGEDLY RAN OVER HER PARTNER A NUMBER OF TIMES BEFORE DRIVING INTO THE WAIKATO RIVER IS UNDERGOING A PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION. POLICE SAY THE WOMAN (44) DROVE OVER A 10M BANK INTO THE WATER AFTER SHE HAD RUN OVER HER PARTNER A NUMBER OF TIMES. THE DAMAGED CAR WAS THIS AFTERNOON HOOKED ON TO A CRANE BY DIVERS AND LOWERED ON TO A TRUCK. d A SECURITY CAMERA 8 CAPTURED THE INCIDENT, WHICH LEFT THE MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED. SEVERAL STATE HOMES IN UPPER HUTT ARE BEING PUT THROUGH A SERIES OF SIMULATED EARTHQUAKE TESTS. HOUSING NZ IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT JUST HOW MANY OF ITS PROPERTIES WILL NEED TO BE DEMOLISHED OR STRENGTHENED. THE RESULTS COULD ALSO HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR PRIVATE BUILDING OWNERS. RENEE GRAHAM EXPLAINS. FORMER RESIDENTS KEEPING AN EYE ON THEIR OLD STATE HOMES GETTING A SHAKE-UP IN A SERIES OF EARTHQUAKE RESILIENCE TESTS. 31 UNITS IN TRENTHAM ARE EARTHQUAKE-PRONE AND TOO DANGEROUS TO LIVE IN. THERE WAS A BIT OF AN UPHEAVAL. THERE WAS A FEW FAMILIES THAT REFUSED TO MOVE BECAUSE THEY LOVED IT RIGHT WHERE THEY WERE, AND THEY WERE HAPPY WHERE THEY WERE, BUT THEY ENDED UP MOVING AT THE LAST MINUTE. HOUSING MINISTER NICK SMITH TOOK THE WHEEL FOR THE FIRST-EVER DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKE TEST ON A TWO-STOREY BUILDING. BIG RIGS PUSH AND PULL THE HOUSE, APPLYING STRESS LIKE A BIG SHAKE. IF IT COMES DOWN LIKE A PACK OF CARDS, WE'RE BETTER INFORMED, AND WE'RE THEN GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAKE MORE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT OUR HOUSING NZ HOMES ARE SAFE. THE THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS IS THAT THESE BUILDINGS ARE ABOUT 7% OF NEW BUILDING STANDARD. THERE ARE MORE THAN 160 EARTHQUAKE-PRONE HOUSING NZ PROPERTIES NATIONWIDE. ALL ARE MULTI-STORY, MULTI-UNIT BUILDINGS LIKE THESE. SOME WILL BE STRENGTHENED. OTHERS WILL BE DEMOLISHED. THE GOVERNMENT'S PUT ASIDE UP TO $45M FOR THE WORK. THAT'S ABOUT $100,000 PER UNIT. WHAT THIS ALLOWS US TO DO IS BE MORE SOPHISTICATED ABOUT MAKING THOSE CALCULATIONS. THE TEST RESULTS HERE COULD SAVE TENS, IF NOT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, NOT JUST FOR HOUSING NZ BUT FOR THE THOUSANDS OF BUILDING OWNERS AOUND NZ WHO ARE REALISING THEY HAVE TO UPGRADE THEIR BUILDING. IN CHRISTCHURCH, 5000 STATE HOMES WERE DAMAGED IN THE QUAKES, AND ANOTHER 700 HOMES ARE BEING REBUILT. WHERE THEY PUT ME NOW, IT TURNED OUTTO BE A REAL GOOD THING. YOU KNOW, MY KIDS ARE HAPPY. THEY GOT A BIGGER YARD TO RUN AROUND IN. TAMA JACOBS SAYS HE SLEEPS EASIER IN HIS NEW HOUSE, KNOWING DANGEROUS HOMES LIKE THIS WILL BE CONDEMNED BEFORE COMING TO A CRASHING END. RENEE GRAHAM, ONE NEWS. JUST AHEAD ON ONE NEWS ` GRABBING ALL THEY CAN GET. THE SCENES OF DESPERATION DAYS ON FROM A DEADLY TYPHOON. NEW PICTURES OF THE SMOULDERING AFTERMATH OF A PASSENGER PLANE CRASH. AND AN AUTHOR WITH A BLEAK VIEW OF THE WORLD WE LOOK AT THE LIFE OF DORIS LESSING. UPBEAT MUSIC It's hard to believe how far mobile technology has come since the 1980s. Now, with so many people owning smartphones, how quickly we forget this was the first generation, or 1G. Now there's 4G. It's already arrived in parts of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. It'll roll out, over time, to more and more places, where it's being met by an ever-evolving range of amazing 4G devices. So, when it comes to music, you can download a song in seconds and albums in minutes. It lets you stream TV and video to your 4G device with less buffering time and with much better picture quality. It's also great for business. Faster speeds means sending big files on the go; getting those site pictures and videos back to the office quick smart. As 4G rolls out to more places, 3G will feel like the old days. For more about 4G, visit Telecom's techinasec.co.nz THE JURY IN THE RAE PORTMAN CASE HAS HEARD THAT THE DRUG WORLD IS A DIRTY, GRUBBY UNDERBELLY WHERE FRIENDS CAN BECOME ENEMIES OVER A BIT OF METHAMPHETAMINE. THE DEFENCE IS SUMMING UP IN THE CASE WHERE PARAIRE TE AWA IS ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING AND MURDERING RAE PORTMAN IN JUNE LAST YEAR. HIS LAWYER SAID PARAIRE TE AWA HAD NO MOTIVE, AND HE REPEATEDLY AND EMPHATICALLY DENIED ANY INVOLVEMENT DURING POLICE QUESTIONING. SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, YOU COOPERATE WITH POLICE. YOU ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS. YOU MAKE THE DENIALS. THAT'S ALL ANYONE CAN DO. IT'S ACTUALLY VERY FRIGHTENING. DEAN ADDISON IS ALSO ACCUSED OF THE KIDNAPPING OF MS PORTMAN, ALONG WITH DRUG OFFENCES. JOHN KEY WILL USE HIS TWO-DAY TOUR OF THAILAND TO LOBBY FOR AN ENHANCED FREE-TRADE DEAL WITH THE SOUTH-EAST ASIAN NATION. POLITICAL EDITOR CORIN DANN IS TRAVELING WITH THE PRIME MINISTER AND FILED THIS REPORT. ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER WORLD SUMMIT. JOHN KEY BACKED UP THE WEEKEND'S CHOGM MEETING IN SRI LANKA WITH AN APPEARANCE AT A UNITED NATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS FORUM IN BANGKOK. AND SO THAT HAS INVOLVED NZ, UH, THE NZ GOVERNMENT SPENDING A BIT OVER $1B TO ROLL OUT FIBRE TO 75% OF HOMES ACROSS NZ. ALTHOUGH, STRANGELY, NO REFERENCE TO THE ONGOING DEBATE OVER CHORUS' COPPER BROADBAND PRICES THAT THREATENS THE ROLLOUT. BUT TALKING BROADBAND IS NOT THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS VISIT TO THAILAND. RATHER, IT'S ABOUT GETTING MORE OUT OF THE ASEAN FREE-TRADE DEAL SIGNED WITH THAILAND SEVEN YEARS AGO. IT'S REALLY GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE WE'RE NOW BUMPING UP AGAINST, UH, THE PHASE-OUT OF, UM, THE INCENTIVES THAT WERE IN THAT DEAL. WELL, TARIFFS AND QUOTAS THAT WERE IN THAT DEAL. SO THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO POTENTIALLY TALK TO, UM, THE THAI GOVERNMENT ABOUT, UM, MAKING THAT DEAL GO A BIT FASTER. THAILAND IS ALREADY NZ'S 10TH LARGEST TRADING PARTNER, BUT MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE. MR KEY BROUGHT A LARGE KIWI BUSINESS CONTINGENT ALONG FOR THE RIDE TO FURTHER PROMOTE THEIR WARES. ONE OF THE STRATEGIES OF THE GOVERNMENT IS BEING... TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT SOLELY FOCUSED ON CHINA. THERE'S A HUGE EMERGING MIDDLE CLASS RIGHT ACROSS ASIA AND, UH, THAILAND'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF THAT. IN RECENT WEEKS, THAILAND HAS BEEN ROCKED BY POLITICAL UNREST AND PROTESTS, MUCH OF IT AIMED AT LAWS BEING PROMOTED BY THE PRIME MINISTER YINGLUCK SHINAWATRA. MR KEY IS UNFAZED, THOUGH, AND WILL MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER YINGLUCK TOMORROW FOR FORMAL BILATERAL TALKS. CORIN DANN, ONE NEWS. AN INVESTIGATION'S TAKING PLACE INTO WHY A PLANE CRASHED IN RUSSIA, KILLING ALL 50 PEOPLE ON BOARD. THE BOEING 737 HIT THE GROUND AND EXPLODED WHILE TRYING TO LAND IN THE CITY OF KAZAN, AN HOUR AFTER TAKING OFF FROM MOSCOW. SOME REPORTS SAY THE PILOT HAD ALREADY TRIED TO LAND TWICE BEFORE THE CRASH. AID IS STARTING TO GET THROUGH TO SOME ISOLATED PARTS OF THE PHILIPPINES MORE THAN A WEEK AFER TYPHOON HAIYAN STRUCK. THE BBC'S RAJINI VAIDYANATHAN JOINED A FLIGHT TO DELIVER SUPPLIES TO THE REMOTE TOWN OF GUIUAN. A GLIMMER OF HOPE AND A DESPERATE SCRAMBLE FOR SURVIVAL. THESE VILLAGERS LIVING IN ONE REMOTE AREA ARE FINALLY GETTING AID A WEEK AFTER THE TYPHOON HIT. THE US MILITARY'S BEEN WORKING WITH THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT TO COORDINATE RELIEF EFFORTS ACROSS THESE DEVASTATED ISLANDS. WE WERE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE AMERICAN NAVY'S FLAGSHIP CARRIER WHICH SERVES AS A MOBILE AIRPORT. WITH MORE THAN 6000 SAILORS ON BOARD, IT'S WORKING AT MAXIMUM CAPACITY. MORE THAN 600,000KG OF FOOD, WATER AND MEDICINES HAVE BEEN HANDED OUT IN THE PAST FEW DAYS. AS SOON AS IT'S LOADED UP, IT'S GONE. WHAT'S LEFT OF GUIUAN'S AIRPORT HAS BECOME A HUB FOR AMERICAN AID EFFORTS. THIS AREA WAS ALMOST COMPLETELY DESTROYED. PEOPLE HERE AREN'T JUST IN NEED OF FOOD AND WATER; THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT. US PLANES HAVE BEEN FLYING PEOPLE TO BIGGER CITIES, BUT IT'S A LONG AND TIRING WAIT. I WANT TO KEEP TRACK WITH MY SISTER. SHE'S PREGNANT. I WANT TO GO TO MANILA BE-BECAUSE I'M WORRIED. THIS IDYLLIC LANDSCAPE LIES BRUISED, BROKEN AND BATTERED. THE US MILITARY SAYS IT'S HERE TO HELP FOR AS LONG AS IT'S NEEDED. BUT THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF A RELIEF OPERATION THAT HAS NO CLEAR END IN SIGHT. AND NEW VIDEO'S JUST SURFACED OF THE MOMENT THE TYPHOON HIT LANDFALL. THE AMATEUR FOOTAGE WAS SHOT BY A MAN HUDDLED IN THE TOP FLOOR OF A BOARDING HOUSE IN HERNANI. IT TOOK LESS THAN 30 SECONDS FOR THE TOWN TO BE WIPED OUT. MUCH OF THE BOARDING HOUSE WAS DESTROYED, BUT AID WORKERS SAY THE MAN WAS SOON BACK ON THE JOB, HELPING SURVIVORS. FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES IN VIETNAM'S COFFEE-GROWING REGION HAVE KILLED AT LEAST 28 PEOPLE. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF HOMES HAVE BEEN SUBMERGED, FORCING THE EVACUATION OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. WATER'S HAD TO BE RELEASED FROM SEVERAL DAMS, ENDANGERING VILLAGES DOWNSTREAM. THE MOST ACTIVE VOLCANO IN EUROPE IS ONCE AGAIN LIGHTING UP THE SKIES. MOUNT ETNA SHOT A TOWER OF ASH ABOVE SICILY. AIRSPACE HAS BEEN CLOSED, BUT THE LAVA FLOW ISN'T ENDANGERING NEARBY VILLAGES. THE VOLCANO'S LAST MAJOR ERUPTION WAS IN 1992. NOW WE CHECK OUT THE DAY'S WEATHER, AND THUNDER IN THE HILLS? LIKE YESTERDAY. CALM ANTICYCLONIC SKIES, STRONG AFTERNOON HEATING, CONVERGENCE, AND UP THEY GO. 900 STRIKES FROM MARLBOROUGH TO NORTHLAND. THIS AFTERNOON, THE CELLS MOVED ACROSS GISBORNE AND HAWKE'S BAY. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ WHAT A SIGHT FOR EARLY RISERS ON THE EAST COAST THIS MORNING. A PASTEL MOONSET OVER THE KAIMANAWAS. MORE COLOURFUL IMAGERY COMING UP IN YOUR FORECASTS. COMING UP ON ONE NEWS ` THE CHAIN GANG. WE'VE A SUCCESS STORY IN FINDING WORK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. A COLOURFUL CHARACTER. A NOBEL-PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR HAS DIED. THE ORGANISATIONS BEHIND A SCHEME TRYING TO FIND JOBS FOR EVERY YOUTH IN THE CLUTHA DISTRICT SAY IT'S WORKING. WORK AND INCOME'S TEAMED UP WITH THE COUNCIL AND SILVER FERN FARMS TO HELP FILL 40 NEW POSITIONS AT A MEAT PRODUCTION PLANT NEAR BALCLUTHA. MAX BANIA REPORTS. HARLEY BROWN (19) HAS STRUGGLED TO FIND WORK SINCE LEAVING SCHOOL LAST YEAR. DOWN HERE, IT'S A BIT HARDER THAN UP IN TOWN, BUT I COULD ONLY FIND PART-TIME WORK UP THERE. SO I'VE COME DOWN HERE. HOPEFULLY GET A FULL-TIME JOB HERE. THE DUNEDIN NATIVE IS ONE OF 24 UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS INVOLVED IN THE CLUTHA DISTRICT'S READY STEADY WORK SCHEME, STARTED LAST YEAR WITH THE HELP OF WORK AND INCOME. IT'S GIVEN THEM THAT MONEY, THAT CONTROL. I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, ANY KID, I'M FINDING THAT THEY'RE ALL GOOD KIDS. GOOD KIDS, AND IF YOU GIVE THEM A CHANCE, THEY'LL TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY, AND THEY'LL RUN WITH IT. MANY HOPING TO FIND THAT OPPORTUNITY HERE, AT SILVER FERN FARMS' MEAT PROCESSING PLANT NEAR BALCLUTHA, WHICH HAS JUST CREATED 40 NEW JOBS. GIVES THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE` DEVELOP THEIR AWARENESS OF WHAT'S REQUIRED IN THE WORKPLACE AND GIVES THEM AN EASIER SETTLING-IN PERIOD, BECAUSE IT'S QUITE TRAUMATIC FOR SOME GETTING INTO WORK. THE MAYOR SEES NO REASON WHY THE SCHEME COULDN'T WORK ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY I COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR MORE FROM THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, BUT IT'S NOT UNTIL THE COMMUNITY TAKES OWNERSHIP OF THE ISSUE, I THINK, THAT YOU CAN REALLY GIVE IT A NUDGE. WE SEE THE YOUTH AS THE FUTURE OF THE PLANT, AND THAT'S WHY WE GET BEHIND IT. WE'RE FULLY PASSIONATE. AS FOR THE PRESENT, SILVER FERN HAS TO CONTEND WITH THE EFFECTS OF THIS YEAR'S NORTH ISLAND DROUGHT, PLUS DECLINING LAMB NUMBERS. THAT MAY MEAN IT HAS TO LEAVE THIS SILVERSTREAM PLANT NEAR DUNEDIN CLOSED OVER THE SUMMER. BUT THE COMPANY DOES PLAN TO FIND WORK FOR ITS 178 SEASONAL STAFF HERE AFFECTED. FOR THESE WOULD-BE WORKERS, THE PROSPECTS ARE BRIGHT. THE GOAL IS TO HAVE THEM ALL IN A JOB BY CHRISTMAS. MAX BANIA, ONE NEWS. A PROLIFIC AUTHOR WHO CHALLENGED CONVENTIONAL THINKING HAS DIED, AGED 94. DORIS LESSING WROTE MORE THAN 50 BOOKS AND WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 2007. THE BBC'S NICK HIGHAM LOOKS AT HER LIFE. DORIS LESSING HEARD SHE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FROM REPORTERS CAMPED ON HER DOORSTEP. HER REACTION WAS TYPICALLY FORTHRIGHT. HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS? NO. YOU'VE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. OH CHRIST. SHE WAS NEVER AFRAID TO SPEAK HER MIND. HER EARLY LIFE ON A FARM IN AFRICA SHAPED MUCH OF HER WRITING. HER FATHER LOST A LEG IN WWI; THE EVILS OF WAR BECAME A CONSTANT THEME. HER MOTHER FELT TRAPPED; THE PLIGHT OF WOMEN WAS ANOTHER THEME. HER FIRST NOVEL, 'THE GRASS IS SINGING', ABOUT A WHITE WOMAN'S AFFAIR WITH A BLACK MAN, WAS SET IN WHAT SHE CALLED THE DRUNKEN AND DREARY WORLD OF WHITE RHODESIANS. SHE MARRIED TWICE, SEPARATED TWICE, ESCAPED TO ENGLAND AND BECAME A PROFESSIONAL WRITER. SHE ABANDONED HER EARLIER COMMUNISM BUT REMAINED POLITICALLY ACTIVE. HERE IN A BBC CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMME. THE POSSIBLE FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ONLY FOUR YEARS AGO WAS TALKING ABOUT USING AN ATOM BOMB JUST QUITE CASUALLY ` A CONVENTIONAL WEAPON. WHAT GUARANTEE IS THERE THAT ANOTHER SLIGHTLY OFF-BALANCED GENERAL MIGHT PRECIPITATE THE WHOLE WORLD INTO WAR? HER BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL, 'THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK', APPEARED IN 1962. MULTI-LAYERED AND COMPLEX, IT WAS HAILED BY FEMINISTS. THOUGH DORIS LESSING WAS HARDLY A CONVENTIONAL FEMINIST. I DON'T THINK MY WRITING CAN BE DESCRIBED AS EITHER FEMINIST OR NON-FEMINIST. I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT ALL KINDS OF MEN AND WOMEN. IF... LOOK, I HAVE NEVER EVER IN MY LIFE MET A WOMAN WHO IS NOT A FEMINIST. IN ALL, SHE PUBLISHED MORE THAN 50 WORKS, INCLUDING SHORT STORIES, SCIENCE FICTION AND WHAT SHE CALLED INNER-SPACE FICTION. SHE ADMITTED SHE WAS OFTEN ABRASIVE AND HER VIEW OF THE WORLD WAS OFTEN BLEAK, BUT SHE WAS ALSO, IN THE WORDS OF NOBEL PRIZE CITATION, A WRITER OF SCEPTICISM, FIRE AND VISIONARY POWER. CONTROVERSIAL AUTHOR SALMAN RUSHDIE HAS HAILED LESSING FOR HER 'WARMTH, SHARP MIND AND FEROCITY'. THE LONGEST STANDING SISTER-CITY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NZ AND JAPAN TURNED 40 TODAY. AND, IN A SIGN OF THE STRENGTH OF THEIR BOND, KURASHIKI IS THE BIGGEST PRIVATE FINANCIAL SUPPORTER OF QUAKE-HIT CHRISTCHURCH. DONNA-MARIE LEVER HAS MORE. THEY'RE SISTERS WITH SPADES. MAYORS FROM CHRISTCHURCH AND KURASHIKI PLANTED A JAPANESE CEDAR TREE AND UNVEILED THE ANNIVERSARY GARDEN THAT MARKS ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S LONGEST STANDING SISTERHOODS BETWEEN TWO CITIES. WHEN THE DOCUMENT WAS ORIGINALLY SIGNED, IT WAS TWO MALE MAYORS. THIS TIME IT'S TWO FEMALE MAYORS, SO IT'S SPECIAL ALL ROUND. THE JAPANESE CITY PLEDGED $300,000 TO CHRISTCHURCH FOLLOWING THE EARTHQUAKES. IT STILL REMAINS THE LARGEST SINGLE PRIVATE DONATION TO THE MAYORAL RELIEF FUND TO DATE. AND THAT'S SO SPECIAL BECAUSE, ESSENTIALLY, THEY WENT OUT ON THE STREETS, THEY WENT INTO THE RAILWAY STATIONS, TO THE MALLS, AND THE PEOPLE OF KURASHIKI DONATED TO THE PEOPLE OF CHRISTCHURCH. BUT THEY DIDN'T JUST SEND MONEY. THEY SENT PEOPLE AS WELL, AND I MET ONE OF THE FIREFIGHTERS THAT BECAME PART OF OUR TEAM OVER HERE. AND IT'S THE FIRST TIME MAYOR ITO HAS BEEN HERE SINCE THE TREMORS. WE WERE VERY SAD, BUT NOW, SINCE I CAME HERE TO SEE THE CITY REGENERATE AGAIN, SO TOGETHER... HOW DO YOU SAY? WE ARE WITH YOU. THE CITY OF KURASHIKI HAS THIS EXACT SAME GARDEN OVER THERE, AND WHILE HERE THE ROCK POINTS NORTH TOWARDS JAPAN, OVER THERE, IT POINTS SOUTH, BACK TOWARDS CHRISTCHURCH. THE CITIES BECAME SIBLINGS IN 1973 AFTER A BUSINESSMAN IN JAPAN NOTICED HOW SIMILAR THEY WERE. AND ANOTHER SYMBOL OF FRIENDSHIP ` A STREETLAMP'S ALSO BEEN GIFTED TO THE CITY AS PART OF AN ARTWORK TO ONCE AGAIN LIGHT UP THE STREETS AND REMIND CANTABRIANS THEY'RE NOT ALONE. DONNA-MARIE LEVER, ONE NEWS. UPDATING TONIGHT'S LEADING STORIES. IT'S BEEN REVEALED A POLICE OFFICER WHO'LL BE SENTENCED NEXT MONTH ON SEX AND CORRUPTION CHARGES WAS ALSO INVESTIGATED FOR INDECENT ACTS SIX YEARS AGO. 45-YEAR-OLD CHRISTCHURCH SENIOR CONSTABLE GORDON MEYER HAS ADMITTED OFFERING TO LET A WOMAN OFF A DRINK-DRIVING CHARGE IN EXCHANGE FOR SEXUAL FAVOURS. HE ALSO INDECENTLY ASSAULTED A WOMAN IN HIS POLICE CAR. POWERFUL TORNADOES HAVE KILLED AT LEAST FIVE PEOPLE AND FLATTENED WHOLE NEIGHBOURHOODS IN AMERICA'S MIDWEST. AN ESTIMATED 53 MILLION PEOPLE IN TEN STATES ARE IN THE STORM'S PATH. THE WORST-HIT SO FAR IS ILLINOIS. AND SECURITY'S BEING REVIEWED AT A WELLINGTON DEPOT AFTER FIVE BUSES WERE SET ALIGHT. POLICE BELIEVE THE FIRE WAS DELIBERATE. THE COST OF THE DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED AT $2.5. ANDREW'S HERE WITH SPORT, AND THE ALL WHITES PLAYERS FIRE BACK AT CRITICISM? MORE NEXT FROM THE ALL WHITES CAMP IN THE CAPITAL. AND WE'VE UNCOVERED A STAGGERING STAT THAT HIGHLIGHTS THEIR PROBLEMS. PLUS ` THE ALL BLACKS REJIG THEIR PLANS FOR IRELAND. LIAM MESSAM ON WHAT WENT WRONG IN THAT HAKA AT TWICKENHAM. AND THE PHILIPPINES DEVASTATION HAS A TRAGIC END FOR AUSTRALIAN GOLF STAR JASON DAY. Welcome to Uses for Credit Card Rewards You Never Use. Today, the rice cooker, a planter pot, a foot spa,... DING! ...a dog bowl, a helmet. Get a reward that's actually rewarding with an ANZ CashBack credit card ` the only credit card that rewards you with cash. Call us today to get this great offer. FIRST UP TONIGHT, TO FOOTBALL, AND THE ALL WHITES ARE COPPING CRITICISM FROM ALL ANGLES. TWO DAYS OUT FROM THEIR WORLD CUP QUALIFYING RETURN MATCH AGAINST MEXICO, MEXICAN LEGEND HUGO SANCHEZ HAS LABELLED THE NZ TEAM A GROUP OF BUDDIES WHO ARE FAILED RUGBY PLAYERS. THE BUDDIES HAVEN'T GIVEN UP ON THE GAME IN WELLINGTON OR THE FUTURE. MARK HATHAWAY REPORTS. JUST A BUNCH OF MATES WHO COULDN'T MAKE IT PLAYING RUGBY? I THINK, PERSONALLY FOR MYSELF, I THINK I'M ALL RIGHT AT RUGBY, SO I'M NOT TOO SURE WHAT HE'S MEANING BY THAT. YEAH, WE ARE A GOOD GROUP OF BUDDIES, BUT FOR RUGBY REJECTS, I DON'T THINK SO. WE'RE ALL BROUGHT UP WANTING TO PLAY FOR OUR COUNTRY FOOTBALL, AND WE'RE STILL LIVING THAT DREAM AT THE MOMENT. THE DREAM NOW INVOLVES A FAIRY TALE 4-0 SCORELINE. JEREMY BROCKIE HOPING TO BREAK HIS 41-MATCH DUCK IN THE PROCESS. IT'S BEEN BUGGING ME A LITTLE BIT, SO IF I CAN GET THE FIRST ONE, IT'D BE A NICE LITTLE START FOR WEDNESDAY, AND HOPEFULLY THAT LIGHTS UP FOR THE REST OF THE GAME. AND IF OMENS ARE ANYTHING TO GO BY, THE ALL WHITES BELIEVE THEY ARE CAPABLE, THANKS TO SOME HELP FROM ABOVE. SMELTZIE'S GOT THE BLONDE MOHAWK BACK IN IS HAIR NOW, SO THAT ONLY MEANS ONE THING, AND THAT'S GOALS. SHANE SMELTZ, THOUGH, NOT PUTTING TOO MUCH WEIGHT ON HIS HIGHLIGHT-REEL FEATS STEMMING FROM HIS BLONDE-HIGHLIGHTED TIPS. NAH, I'VE ALWAYS HAD IT. I'VE HAD IT FOR A FEW YEARS NOW, SO IT WAS TIME TO GET IT BACK. JUST WHO MAKES IT BACK INTO THE STARTING LINE UP IS UP IN THE AIR, WITH THE QUESTION OF YOUTH OVER EXPERIENCE A BIG ONE FOR COACH RICKI HERBERT. IT'S NOT ABOUT YOUNG OR OLD; I THINK... IT'S ABOUT WHO WANTS TO GO OUT AND DO THE JOB NOW. THE BOTCHED JOB AT THE AZTECA SOMETHING THE ALL WHITES WANT TO FORGET. THE SIDE NOT EVEN WATCHING THE VIDEO OF THE 5-1 SLAUGHTER. I THINK IT WAS VERY CLEAR TO SEE WHAT THE PROBLEMS WERE FOR US, SO GOING OVER IT WON'T CHANGE ANYTHING IN OUR HEADS. WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S GONE WRONG, AND WE KNOW HOW TO PUT THAT RIGHT. GETTING IT RIGHT ON THE NIGHT THE TOUGH CHALLENGE NOW. MARK HATHAWAY, ONE NEWS. THE ALL BLACKS HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE THEIR FULL SQUAD TO DUBLIN FOR THIS WEEKEND'S LAST TEST MATCH OF THE YEAR, AGAINST IRELAND. SEVERAL PLAYERS WERE EXPECTED TO HEAD HOME AFTER THE ENGLAND GAME, BUT TOUR-ENDING INJURIES TO DAN CARTER AND TONY WOODCOCK MEAN THE SQUAD WILL STAY INTACT. EUROPE CORRESPONDENT GARTH BRAY REPORTS. THE ALL BLACKS CELEBRATED THIS HARD-EARNED WIN AGAINST ENGLAND WITH A NIGHT OFF, AND IF ANYONE DESERVES A BREAK NOW, IT'S BEN SMITH. HERE'S BEN SMITH. BETWEEN CENTRE AND WING, SMITH HAS PLAYED ALMOST EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY TEST AND EVERY HIGHLANDERS' SUPER 15 GAME THIS YEAR. I THINK IT PROBABLY JUST GIVES YOU A BIT OF CONFIDENCE. YOU KNOW, YOU GET TO WORK ON YOUR GAME WEEK IN, WEEK OUT HE MISSED THE LAST NINE MINUTES AGAINST AUSTRALIA IN DUNEDIN, 30 OFF AT THE END IN TOKYO, AND A BLOOD-BINNING WITH THE HIGHLANDERS LEAVES A TINY 49-MINUTE HOLE IN A PERFECT ATTENDANCE RECORD. SO TIME FOR A REST THIS WEEK? (CHUCKLES) NO. (CHUCKLES) THE ALL BLACKS WILL BE FIGHTING ANY SUGGESTION THAT THE HARD WORK ON THIS AUTUMN TOUR HAS FINISHED HERE IN LONDON. ANY COMPLACENCY DURING THE WEEK COULD BE EVERY BIT AS DANGEROUS AS THE THREAT POSED BY IRELAND AT THE WEEKEND. IRELAND HAS NEVER BEATEN NZ IN A TEST. ONE MORE VICTORY WOULD GIVE THE ALL BLACKS THE FIRST CLEAN SWEEP IN A PROFESSIONAL RUGBY SEASON. THAT WILL BE MOTIVATION APLENTY. TO RIP INTO IT AND, UH, TO GET STUCK INTO IT, WE'VE GOT A, I GUESS, A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT, UH, AT THE END OF THIS IF WE CAN GET A WIN. MESSAM HAS PULLED UP WELL AFTER BATTLING A DEAFENING ENGLISH CROWD FROM BEFORE THE WHISTLE. A LONGER HAKA SEEMED TO BE HIS TACTICAL PLAY. NAH, WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, I LOST MY BREATH AND, UH, ABOUT TO FAINT... (SNIGGERS) COS I WAS TRYING TO OUT, UM, DROWN THE FANS AND JUST HAD TO REGROUP AND REGATHER MYSELF BEFORE I FELL OVER AND EMBARRASSED MYSELF. < TRUE STORY? TRUE STORY. THE WHOLE SQUAD, DAN CARTER AND TONY WOODCOOK INCLUDED, NOW TRAVELS TO DUBLIN TO CATCH ITS BREATH AND PREPARE FOR AN HISTORIC END TO THE SEASON. GARTH BRAY, ONE NEWS, LONDON THE SPRINGBOKS HAVE CONTINUED THEIR UNBEATEN RUN THROUGH EUROPE, THRASHING SCOTLAND THIS MORNING IN EDINBURGH, 28-0. FULLBACK WILLIE LE ROUX WAS THE STAR, SCORING THIS RUNAWAY TRY AS SCOTLAND FLOUNDERED ON THEIR SUBSTANDARD TURF. THEN LE ROUX BECAME THE PROVIDER. CROWD CHEERS SOUTH AFRICA WERE UP 21-0 AT HALF-TIME, IN THE END WINNING 28-0. A RARE FORAY INTO THE SPRINGBOKS' 22 WAS SOON SNUFFED OUT, SUMMING UP THE MATCH FOR THE SCOTS. FIJI HAVE MADE THE RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD CUP SEMI-FINALS, BRUSHING ASIDE SAMOA 22-4 TO SET UP A SEMI SHOWDOWN WITH AUSTRALIA. NEW SOUTH WALES WINGER AKUILA UATE SPARKING FIJI'S FIRST AND THIRD TRIES AS FIJI SECURED A REPEAT OF THEIR 2008 WORLD CUP SEMI AGAINST THE KANGAROOS. HERE'S UATE FOR FIJI. FANCIES A GO INSIDE. GETS THE BALL AWAY AS WELL. THEY'RE CHARGING THROUGH UNDERNEATH. KOROISAU. FLICKS THE BALL AWAY, AND THERE THEY ARE. AGONY AND ECSTASY FOR BOTH TEAMS AT FULLTIME. NZ FACE ENGLAND IN THE OTHER SEMI-FINAL ` ALSO A REPEAT OF 2008. AUSTRALIAN GOLF STAR JASON DAY HAS CONFIRMED HE'LL PLAY IN THIS WEEK'S WORLD CUP EVENT IN MELBOURNE DESPITE SUFFERING PERSONAL TRAGEDY. DAY, WHOSE MOTHER IS FILIPINO, HAS LOST SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE DEVASTATING TYPHOON WHICH STRUCK THE PHILIPPINES LAST WEEK. MARTIN TASKER REPORTS. 5000 FILIPINOS ARE EITHER DEAD OR MISSING FOLLOWING TYPHOON HAIYAN, INCLUDING JASON DAY'S GRANDMOTHER, AN UNCLE AND SIX COUSINS. THE AMERICAN-BASED AUSSIE ISSUED A STATEMENT THIS AFTERNOON AFTER ARRIVING IN MELBOURNE, SAYING... DAY, RANKED 20TH IN THE WORLD, WAS A FRONTRUNNER AT THIS YEAR'S US MASTERS, WON BY ADAM SCOTT. SCOTT A WINNER AGAIN YESTERDAY AT THE AUSSIE MASTERS AT THE ROYAL MELBOURNE, WHERE HE'LL ALSO PLAY WITH DAY IN THE WORLD CUP THIS WEEK. THE WORLD NUMBER TWO EVIDENTLY OBLIVIOUS TO DAY'S FAMILY TRAGEDY. LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT WEEK. JASON AND I ARE GOING TO GET RIGHT INTO IT AND, UH, WHAT A GREAT CHANCE WE GET ` ANOTHER WEEK AT ROYAL MELBOURNE. SCOTT WON YESTERDAY BY TWO SHOTS AND LATER SAID HE WAS EXPECTING TO WIN AGAIN WITH DAY. TIED FOR FIFTH BEHIND SCOTT, KIWI RYAN FOX. RYAN FOX HASN'T BEEN DOING TOO BADLY EITHER. ROLLING ONE IN THERE AT THE THIRD HOLE ` HIS FIRST BIRDIE OF THE DAY. FOX WITH HIS FORMER ALL BLACK CADDIE NARROWLY MISSED A DIFFICULT BIRDIE CHANCE AT THE LAST. HOW ABOUT THAT. SEE HOW FAR HE HAD TO HIT LEFT THERE AND HOW QUICK THAT PART WAS? HOPEFULLY HIS DAD, GRANT, WHO IS ON THE BAG, WILL BE PLEASED WITH THAT PERFORMANCE. NZ PGA CHAMPION MICHAEL HENDRY TIED FOR 16TH AT ROYAL MELBOURNE, WHERE HIS WORLD CUP PARTNER WILL BE TIM WILKINSON, WHO FINISHED TIED FOR 10TH TODAY AT A PGA TOUR EVENT IN MEXICO. MARTIN TASKER, ONE NEWS. FORMULA ONE CHAMPION SEBASTIAN VETTEL'S LEGEND CONTINUES TO GROW. THE GERMAN HAS SET A SINGLE SEASON RECORD OF EIGHT CONSECUTIVE VICTORIES AFTER WINNING THE US GRAND PRIX. LEADING FROM POLE TO FINISH IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, THE RED BULL DRIVER IS NOW ONE WIN AWAY FROM EQUALLING ALBERTO ASCARI'S RECORD OF NINE CONSECUTIVE VICTORIES SET DURING THE 1952 AND 1953 SEASONS. SEBASTIAN VETTEL COMES OUT OF THE FINAL TURN TO TAKE HIS FIRST EVER WIN IN THE USA ` HIS EIGHTH IN A ROW, THE 12TH OF 2013. WHAT AN ASTONISHING RECORD IT IS. AND A WIN AT THE FINAL ROUND IN BRAZIL WILL ALSO PUT VETTEL LEVEL WITH COUNTRYMAN MICHAEL SCHUMACHER'S RECORD OF 13 WINS IN A SEASON. TO TENNIS, AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC HAS WON BACK-TO-BACK DAVIS CUPS AFTER A 3-2 VICTORY OVER SERBIA. WORLD NUMBER TWO NOVAK DJOKOVIC GAVE THE SERBS A CHANCE, BEATING TOMAS BERDYCH TO LEVEL THE TIE AT TWO RUBBERS EACH. BUT RADEK STEPANEK QUICKLY PUT PAID TO ANY CZECH FEARS, WINNING THE DECIDING MATCH AGAINST DUSAN LAJOVIC IN STRAIGHT SETS. CHEERING I DON'T THINK WORDS CAN DESCRIBE IT. UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, UH, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN THE FIRST TIME. TO DEFEND, UH, THIS TROPHY, UH, MEANS FOR US, YOU KNOW, THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. VETERAN STEPANEK IS THE FIRST PLAYER TO WIN THE DECIDING FIFTH RUBBER IN CONSECUTIVE FINALS, WHILE THE CZECHS TAKE HOME THE TROPHY FOR THE THIRD TIME. HE WENT FROM OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST TO ROWING NZ OUTCAST IN THE SPACE OF MONTHS, BUT NOW CHAMPION ROWER JOSEPH SULLIVAN IS BACK IN THE BOAT. ABBY SCOTT SPOKE WITH THE MAN WHO'S DETERMINED TO MAKE IT TO THE RIO OLYMPICS. JOSEPH SULLIVAN REFLECTING ON JUST HOW CLOSE HIS ROWING CAREER CAME TO CAPSIZING. IF YOU'D ASKED ME SIX MONTHS AGO IF I WAS GOING TO ROW, YOU WOULD HAVE GOT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ANSWER TO WHAT YOU'D GET NOW. BACK THEN, SULLIVAN WAS READY TO THROW IN THE OARS. HE WENT FROM WINNING GOLD IN LONDON TO NOT EVEN MAKING THE NATIONAL TEAM IN 2013. IT'S A HARD PLACE TO BE BEING FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD TO BACK DOWN AND RACING FOR A SEAT AGAIN. HE KEPT TRAINING, BUT HIS HEART WASN'T IN IT, EVENTUALLY PULLING OUT OF THE SQUAD AND TAKING A MONTH OFF. I THINK IT WAS PROBABLY JUST ALMOST DEPRESSED DOING IT AND TRYING TO FIND THE MOTIVATION TO GET BACK IN, BUT THIS YEAR REALLY ENJOYING IT AND GOT THE PASSION BACK AND JUST HAVING A LOT OF FUN. HOURS ON THE BIKE WHILE THE TEAM WAS AT SOUTH KOREA'S WORLD CHAMPS HAVE HELPED GET HIS FITNESS UP TO SPEED. THE FACT THAT I CAN KEEP UP AND PUSH AND MAYBE EVEN IN PATCHES PUSH AWAY, WHICH IS PRETTY COOL. BUT, YEAH, FITNESS AND STRENGTH IS RIGHT UP THERE, AND WE DO LOTS OF TESTING, AND I'M RIGHT BACK IN THE MIX. HE'S ALSO OUT OF THE SINGLE AND BACK IN HIS OLD BOAT FOR SUMMER ` SOMEWHERE HE HOPES TO STAY. FOR ME THE GOAL IS JUST TO BE GOING THE FASTEST I CAN AT THE MOMENT AND BE IN THE BEST POSITION TO BE IN THE FASTEST BOAT WHETHER IT BE THE QUAD OR THE DOUBLE. DETERMINED TO KEEP HIS DREAM OF MEDALLING AT A SECOND OLYMPICS AFLOAT. ABBY SCOTT, ONE NEWS. THANKS, SPORT. JIM'S HERE NEXT ON ONE NEWS AND SAYS THERE'S FOG AND THUNDER IN THE FORECAST DESPITE THE HIGH IN THE SKY. TONIGHT ON SEVEN SHARP ` HOW TO STAY OUT OF JAIL. IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU REFUSE TO DO JURY SERVICE. PLUS ` WOULD YOU STOP TO GIVE THIS A RIDE? WELL, ACTUALLY, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AND WE'LL TELL YOU WHY SHORTLY. AND WE'VE GOT THE SECRET TO HAPPINESS. WELL, WE'VE GOT THE GURU WITH THE ANSWER, AT LEAST. SEE YOU AT SEVEN SHARP. HI AGAIN. OUR ANTICYCLONE'S FRAYED AT THE EDGES, SLIPPING SLOWLY EAST AND LETTING IN THE BADDIES. HEATING AND INSTABILITY COULD WELL SPARK UP MORE LIGHTNING AND DOWNPOURS ACROSS THE NORTHERN RANGES. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ SO THE RIDGE SLOWLY LOSES ITS FINE WEATHER DNA OVER THE NEXT THREE DAYS. THROW IN AFTERNOON HEATING, AND WE GET THE ODD DOWNPOUR AND SPARKS FLYING OVER THE HILLS. SIMBA'S STARTING TO FEEL THE HEAT. AND THAT'S ONE NEWS FOR MONDAY.